Like many of you, I watched last night’s Pennsylvania Senate debate between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz with something akin to slack-jawed horror. Fetterman’s manifest inability to deal with the contradictions and inconvenient past positions in his record is one (political) matter; his manifest inability to process simple verbal exchanges or respond in complete and coherent sentences is something else entirely.
I rewatched the debate this morning, and my feelings turned from shock to anger. I understand that John Fetterman has his own agency and personal ambitions, but I am stunned, given how feeble he is right now, that anyone who loves him or cares for him would have allowed him to continue on this campaign. He desperately needs to be working on rehabilitation as a full-time endeavor, seven days a week. I understand the reality that Democrats want to retain the U.S. Senate just as much as Republicans wish to retake it, but at some point you have to find a new candidate. And now, I suspect, Pennsylvania Democrats are about to pay for their cynicism.